Hello Everyone, welcome to my blog, so it's another edition of the Hive Learners Weekly Prompt,the topic today has me contemplating on how to explain my point, but I will try my best to put it in words that you can relate to.
So when people talk about climate change , it is usually with big words rising sea levels, heatwaves, glaciers melting, wildfires and all that kind of things,but me, I have never seen any of that with my own two eyes before, because I live in Lagos Nigeria , and if I am being honest, my experience with climate change might not be the dramatic kind of one that you see on the TV, but it is definitely real… and also frustrating.
So let me just say it like this if you live in the area where I live, climate change looks like mud, and I mean plenty of it.
Yeah , Anytime it rains in my area, the whole place just changes , the roads? Ehn, it's that one that pains me most, you see bad doesn’t even begin to describe the whole thing, It really becomes so hard to walk on, not to talk of cars or bikes trying to pass too, and let me just say this , it does not even need to be heavy rain, you see just small drizzle and everywhere will just turn to swimming pool.
That kind of thing that will make you stay at home even when you are fully dressed and ready to go out, and for those of us who really have to go out , omo..... by the time you make it out of our area, your legs, your slippers, your clothes all stained with mud.... Like you went through one obstacle course, it's always so frustrating, Sometimes I even wonder if it's fashion or survival training we do in this Lagos.
People that have cars sometimes just park and walk on foot, because what is the point? Even keke marwa and bikes will start doing the whole “madam we no fit pass here is here o.” Like The struggle is real, and even when they say they will pass , they will charge you triple money and still ask you to use let to pass some places, lol.. even you too will want to walk, because by the time the bike starts dancing on those muddy roads, you sef will want to protect your legs from bike injury, because it has happened like alot of times.
So you might now ask what does this have to do with the whole climate change?
So here it is , in the past, these kinds of floods or water-logged areas were things we usually saw like occasionally, but now it feels as if every other week we are dealing with rain that refuses to just go away somehow, The water doesn't get dry quick again. The drainage is poor, yes, but the rain is more frequent and more stubborn, even when it is not rainy season, rain will still fall anyhow.
Now the most annoying part is that nobody is really talking about it around us again, It is like we have all just adapted to it, Once it rains, we just know not to wear white, not to bother cleaning your shoes, and maybe even cancel your plans altogether, you get, That’s how we survive.
Personally, I don’t think I am scared of climate change I think I am just tired, tired of being drenched, tired of washing clothes plenty times ,tired of walking like I am trekking through inside muddy water and mud together ,every time the sky decides to fall.
So yeah..., I have not been evacuated from my area, and I have not seen any glacier melting, lol. But climate change? I have felt it in my slippers, I have wiped it off my leg, And I have seen it hold people back from getting to work, from earning money, and from just living their normal lives.
This may not be the loud side of climate change, but it is the one I am living in one rainy, muddy day at a time.
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